AI NEWS: Sam Altman leads OpenAI safety team, NVIDIA unveils NV-Embed
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OpenAI's New Safety Team Led by Sam Altman
The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, and board members Adam D'Angelo and Nicole Seligman are leading the creation of a new safety team. A number of important AI experts expressed concerns about "critical safety and security decisions for OpenAI projects and operations" when they left the organization earlier this month, and the committee will provide recommendations on these matters.
The new team's initial assignment is to "evaluate and further develop OpenAI's safeguards and processes." The board of OpenAI, which includes the three leaders of the safety team, will then hear the presentation of its findings. Next, the board will determine how to put the safety team's suggestions into practice.
NVIDIA's NV-Embed: The Latest NLP Model
The Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) top rankings for NVIDIA's advanced embedding model, NV-Embed on Hugging Face, have been announced. This model's distinctive design and training techniques enable it to show notable advances in a variety of tasks, all based on a large language model (LLM) architecture.
Global Governments Ramp Up Pace of Chip Investments
In an effort to strengthen its semiconductor industry and lessen its dependency on other countries for the production and use of wafers, China has closed its third state-backed investment fund, emphasizing the concept of "chip sovereignty.
"Prior iterations of China's National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, or "the Big Fund," were Big Fund I, which ran from 2014 to 2019, and Big Fund II, which ran from 2019 to 2024. The latter was far larger than the earlier, but according to official documents, Big Fund III is greater than both at 344 billion yuan, or roughly $47.5 billion.
